Good day Bloggers,
my name is Dr. Gregory Komm. I am currently working as a physician at the Orange County Medical Practice in Anaheim, California. I find this blog quite interesting because it really seems to have captured the 360 degree view on the topic. If I may I will also express my experiences with Obamacare and its effects. I have been a physician all of my life. The main reason why I became a doctor was not because I wanted to make a large amount of money, or open my own practice but rather because I wanted to help people. Helping people has always been my passion ever since I was a boy. Every day I go to work, I love my job. Yet in the past three years there has been a very negative trend occurring in the medical world which I have first handedly experienced. Due to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act the medical field has been experiencing moral hazard.
The patient-doctor relationship is one of the most sacred bonds in the modern history of the world. Patients have trusted doctors with their lives for decades. Since the implementation of Obamacare, this relationship has slowly deteriorated. Many physicians are starting to become corrupt in order to balance out the heavy pay-cuts Obamacare has introduced. The main way that corrupt physicians try to maximize their profits is by under treating their patients. Under Obamacare each patient, depending on his sickness or situation, is given a fixed sum of funds that his physician has at disposal in order to treat him. By under treating a patient the physician can pocket the excess money for himself. This phenomena has been taking the medical field by storm. Just yesterday I witnessed how my son's physician gave him weaker and cheaper antibiotics in order keep the rest of the money bundle for himself. Thankfully, since I am a doctor I intervened in the situation and got the corrupt physician fired. If my son had had a dangerous infection, such as a STAF infection, this could have potentially been fatal. And for what? A few measly dollars! Situations like these happen on a daily basis all around the United States. Most of them go undetected and can have unthinkable effects on patients and their families. Moral hazard, resulting form Obamacare, is not only corrupting the medical field but is also worsening the quality of health care in this country.
The public perception of doctors is worsening as time goes on. Doctors are starting to look more like crooks than people who save lives! I will not stand for something like this to happen to one of the most respected professions in the history of human kind. If Obamacare is not repealed, who knows what could happen to my beloved profession in the future. As one of my great friends Jeffrey Singer recently said about the effect of Obamacare on out profession: Medicine, in just one generation is transforming from a glorious profession into just another occupation." If we allow this to happen we have failed as humans!
my name is Dr. Gregory Komm. I am currently working as a physician at the Orange County Medical Practice in Anaheim, California. I find this blog quite interesting because it really seems to have captured the 360 degree view on the topic. If I may I will also express my experiences with Obamacare and its effects. I have been a physician all of my life. The main reason why I became a doctor was not because I wanted to make a large amount of money, or open my own practice but rather because I wanted to help people. Helping people has always been my passion ever since I was a boy. Every day I go to work, I love my job. Yet in the past three years there has been a very negative trend occurring in the medical world which I have first handedly experienced. Due to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act the medical field has been experiencing moral hazard.
The patient-doctor relationship is one of the most sacred bonds in the modern history of the world. Patients have trusted doctors with their lives for decades. Since the implementation of Obamacare, this relationship has slowly deteriorated. Many physicians are starting to become corrupt in order to balance out the heavy pay-cuts Obamacare has introduced. The main way that corrupt physicians try to maximize their profits is by under treating their patients. Under Obamacare each patient, depending on his sickness or situation, is given a fixed sum of funds that his physician has at disposal in order to treat him. By under treating a patient the physician can pocket the excess money for himself. This phenomena has been taking the medical field by storm. Just yesterday I witnessed how my son's physician gave him weaker and cheaper antibiotics in order keep the rest of the money bundle for himself. Thankfully, since I am a doctor I intervened in the situation and got the corrupt physician fired. If my son had had a dangerous infection, such as a STAF infection, this could have potentially been fatal. And for what? A few measly dollars! Situations like these happen on a daily basis all around the United States. Most of them go undetected and can have unthinkable effects on patients and their families. Moral hazard, resulting form Obamacare, is not only corrupting the medical field but is also worsening the quality of health care in this country.
The public perception of doctors is worsening as time goes on. Doctors are starting to look more like crooks than people who save lives! I will not stand for something like this to happen to one of the most respected professions in the history of human kind. If Obamacare is not repealed, who knows what could happen to my beloved profession in the future. As one of my great friends Jeffrey Singer recently said about the effect of Obamacare on out profession: Medicine, in just one generation is transforming from a glorious profession into just another occupation." If we allow this to happen we have failed as humans!
A very compelling and interesting post, Dr. Komm! I highly appreciate that a medical expert like yourself can find the time to still participate in such blog discussions.For all of our readers, Dr. Komm focused on the moral implications that Obamacare has had on the medical branch. Dr. Komm states that physicians are corrupting themselves through under treating patients in order to keep the excess money of the Obamacare treatment bundles for themselves. He believes that this negative progression will tarnish the name of doctors all around the United States and maybe even stain the name of medicine for good if Obamacare is not counteracted.
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